Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Sure, but let's look beyond device detection.  For instance, it does not 
> necessarily follow that emulating PCI DMA is the best way to go for 
> communication with a virtual device, once detected.

This is true, of course.  However, there are going to be a set of 
virtual devices which don't necessarily have to have super-high 
performance.  In the case of a hwrng device, even doing DMA is probably 
overkill.

> Outside of pci_device_id driver matching, is there much value here?

If we can get a set of device drivers that if not all then at least a 
number of hypervisors and/or emulators can agree upon, I think that's 
much won.

	-hpa
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